Ashley Mason

Ashley Mason is the daughter of Nathaniel and Marjorie Mason, an electronics manufacturing tycoon and a corporate lawyer. Ashley was raised with nothing but the best, and believing that she deserved nothing less than that. At age six she was sent to her first private school, which suited her busy parents well. She had a formal but kind relationship with them growing up, and never found herself wanting much more.

When she was 14, it was time for her to move on to high school. Her mother was raised devoutly Christian, so she believed the best choice for a teenage girl was Christian school. That fall, Ashley moved to Saint Linhard Christian Academy in East Washington. However, her career there was to be a short one. Directly after the Winter semester's exams, she and 17 other students held a protest upon the lawn of the headmaster's office. What the protesters were asking for was the right to pursue romantic relationships on campus without fear of expulsion. What she and the others got, including her then-boyfriend Lowell Gibson, was expelled themselves.

After her father got over his initial outrage and disappointment, he agreed to send her to the nearest school for the completion of her high school diploma. This landed her at Gammon, which pleased her greatly for two reasons: Firstly, because this school was the rival to her old school, and secondly because she knew that Lowell would be going there as well.

At Gammon, Ashley was sorted into the Knights and lived up to the expectations, excelling in Volleyball. She also found out that she was a talented dancer, and joined the Break Dance Club, where she met her new best friend, Alair Enright. Only a few months into her second semester of grade 10, things soured between her and Lowell. His commitment to the school orchestra left him with increasingly less time for her, and the two eventually decided to call it quits. They are still casual friends, but are not otherwise involved.

Ashley started spending more time around Alair towards the end of the semester, but when he rejected her advances, she felt nothing but embarrassed. She is still his closest friend, but now incorrectly assumes that she is gay, a 'secret' that she's more than happy to keep.